I am excited to join the Northeast Community Center community. As a life-long athlete, I love working with a team. I played collegiate soccer and basketball at Linfield University. This passion for sports is what led me to my first job as the Youth Sports Director for the Westside Family YMCA. I had a great Executive Director at the Y. She saw my strengths and talents and encouraged me to attend trainings, engage with the community and mentored me about leadership. I was taught the importance of fundraising to expand the mission and help more children and families.
As the General Manager of RiverPlace Athletic Club, I greatly enjoyed seeing members every day and working with the team to provide innovative offerings to our membership. In this role, I worked with surrounding businesses to attract customers to the RiverPlace Promenade and created a passport program for our members and also created a pipeline of referrals to the club. I left the private health club setting and returned the YMCA of San Francisco as the Presidio YMCA Branch Manager. We had multiple buildings, including an aquatic center, tennis courts, fitness facility, multiple gyms, afterschool programs and onsite childcare.
My roots and family were in Oregon so I returned home to Bend and was the CEO of the Humane Society of Central Oregon. I had the pleasure of being able to work with talented staff and board members to increase the capacity of the organization. My last endeavor at the HSCO was to fund and purchase a veterinary medical van to serve the houseless and economically challenged in our service area. I retired from this position at the end of July 2023.
